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Course Details:
Cost: $30 materials fee
Time: 1pm - 5pm
Age Requirements: 18+
Learn how to take pieces from nature and make them wearable art. Tiny pebbles from the creek bed or strips of bark from the birch tree make wonderful earrings that let you carry reminders of beautiful places with you everywhere. Students will start by exploring their surroundings briefly for any personal pieces they would like to try using in their earrings. The teacher will provide stones found on the shore of lake michigan as well as birch bark stars, strips, and beads made from trees in northern Minnesota. Hardware (hooks and posts) and all tools will be provided. Students will learn to drill holes in stones and assemble on posts. Plan out your design and make a pair of earrings- or two!
Meet Your Instructor
Josie Cooke
(she/her)
Josie is enamored with all things craft since childhood, when she attended programs at the local nature center making sumacade and wild blackberry jam with churn butter. In her twenties, an inordinate amount of time was spent in the pursuit of wild edibles and wild wine making, joined shortly thereafter by an insatiable interest for all things baskets. Throughout this, fiber has been the constant companion, a compendium of knowledge and experience on a slow boil. In backwards fashion, from knitting to fiber studies, to growing her own flax, the journey continues. Craft in all forms is the path to a greater connection with the earth, ourselves, and each other, all of which could use greater unity.
Each year she teaches at the Lake Superior Traditional Ways Gathering, and taught/assisted classes as an intern at North House Folk School. Currently, she occasionally renovates turn of the century houses and endeavors to have a life full of learning, teaching, and creating craft.
Booking Information and Policies:
What happens after I book?:
After you book, we will send you a confirmation email from Squarespace. A few days before camp, we will send you an email with more details about our meeting locations and some housekeeping items.